No British politician paid price for complicity in the Indonesia, Rwanda, Bosnia or Myanmar atrocities. This will have informed Cameron and Sunak’s calculation that they can ignore International Court of Justice over Gaza. I write for Middle East Eye:

middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-ga…

Indonesia. Ruanda. Bosnia. Myanmar. Four studies in British complicity with Genocide.
No politician paid any price. No wonder Cameron and Sunak calculate they can ignore the International Court of Justice over Gaza. My new column for Middle East Eye:

middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-ga…

Can someone please explain why it was acceptable for the media to camp outside Jeremy Corbyn's house?

When he was leader, his house was relentlessly broadcast on national TV.

Why was this deemed acceptable?

Why doesn't it happen to his successor?

I'd love to know the answer!

‘On the grapevine’

Pietersen an old chum of Boris Johnson

Record hot March. 10th such month in a row. Possibly El Niño effect. Or are we into uncharted global warming territory- we will know if averages don’t begin to fall late summer onwards .

How can this not be front-page news?

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe

'An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans...'
theguardian.com/environment/20…

If you want to understand the Islamophobic narrative that dominates both of Britain's main political parties, a devastating argument that is contaminating Britain's democratic tradition, listen to Peter Oborne here. Worth every minute of your time.

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Looks like the Tories may be breaking the law by using the image of King Charles in their political advertising...
royal.uk/sites/default/…

Magnificent Times obituary does full justice to my old boss Charles Reiss, longstanding political editor of the Evening Standard. A master craftsman and reporter of total integrity. I was so lucky to work for him:

thetimes.co.uk/article/charle…

Only flaw in superb Telegraph obituary of wonderful Shaharyar Khan is failure to mention that as scion of princely state of Bhopal the future PCB chairman was taught cricket in pre-partition India by Mushtaq Ali, the Mueen Ali of his day.

telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

In conversation with Richard Sanders, director of the Al Jazeera documentary about October 7th:

middleeasteye.net/video/truth-ab…

Conservative Friends of Israel has started to look much less like a friend of Israel and much more like the London outpost for Netanyahu’s far-right extremist Likud coalition. I write for the Independent:

independent.co.uk/voices/gaza-co…

'The real crime in the eyes of the West was Israel’s slaughter of white people. What happened yesterday is a terrible human tragedy for the aid workers and their families. But it is also a story of western racism'

✍️ Opinion by Peter Oborne
middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel…

Conservative Friends of Israel never rebukes the genocidal discourse of Netanyahu and his ministers. Indeed as far as I can tell it has not criticised a single action of Israel during this terrible Gaza war.
My new column for the Independent:

independent.co.uk/voices/gaza-co…

Among the western media and political classes, there has been more noise made in the past 36 hours about the Israeli killing of seven international aid workers than about all the 32,000 dead Palestinians put together. My new column for Middle East Eye:

middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel…

middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel…

Conservative Friends of Israel, the long-standing parliamentary lobby group, is beginning to resemble the Westminster outpost for Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud coalition, says Peter Oborne (Peter Oborne)
independent.co.uk/gaza-conservat…

Israel makes allegations against UNRWA but provides zero evidence. What happens? UK supends funding pending investigation
Israel carries out three strikes against known aid worker vehicles. What happens? UK says - Israel please investigate yourself, and we'll still sell you arms

In defence of the Muslim Brotherhood